Sara (artist)
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Sara
Sara (born March 17, 1950 in Nantes
, France
) is a French
artist. She has been living in Paris
since 1971. She received the Golden Apple
at the 20th Biennial Illustrations Bratislava in 2005.
Most/ of her albums are filled with the city, the sea and with animals, but the recurrent themes are definitely solitude and encounter.
A monograph by Sara was published by gallery owner Marie-Thérèse Devèze. It shows about fifty themes from her corpus including painting, photography and torn paper.
Interview with Claude Hubert-Ganiyare, from La Joie par les livres, April 1991.
Interview with Janine Kotwica in La Revue des Livres pour Enfants, April 2006
Sara (born March 17, 1950 in Nantes
Nantes
Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
artist. She has been living in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
since 1971. She received the Golden Apple
Golden apple
The golden apple is an element that appears in various national and ethnic folk legends or fairy tales. Recurring themes depict a hero retrieving the golden apples hidden or stolen by a monstrous antagonist...
at the 20th Biennial Illustrations Bratislava in 2005.
Artistic style
It is difficult to distinguish the aesthetic themes from the scenaristic ones. For example, is the red color a theme or a medium ?Most/ of her albums are filled with the city, the sea and with animals, but the recurrent themes are definitely solitude and encounter.
A monograph by Sara was published by gallery owner Marie-Thérèse Devèze. It shows about fifty themes from her corpus including painting, photography and torn paper.
Technics
Sara tears paper to make children’s books and individual pictures. “When the city tears up” is an exhibition of her torn-papered pictures about Paris, and has been shown many times since 1995.Quotes
- “The desire to make these books came in a moment when I didn’t have enough money to buy much material and paint in watercolours and oil. I had nothing but recycled paper... I tried to create something with almost nothing and the idea of torn paper came from it”.
Interview with Claude Hubert-Ganiyare, from La Joie par les livres, April 1991.
- “People often use words as weapons and munitions. (...) The style is a discipline which makes these arms fall to let the world express a precise thought through the simplest and most beautiful arrangement. In fact, this definition could also be applied to images”.
Interview with Janine Kotwica in La Revue des Livres pour Enfants, April 2006